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I really feel dumb when it happens
Arthelon (formerly of Tempo Storm, now on C9, one of the best pro players out there) wrote up a really good post on Lunara's shortcomings: https://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/3yf3fe/my_problems_with_lunara_and_suggestions/
A lot of people try and defend her as a "niche pick", that she "fills a certain role". Except, well, she doesn't. She's just straight up undertuned. What role does she fill? AoE damage? That just makes her a worse Jaina/Kael, then. Sustained/harrass? Welp, that just makes her a worse Raynor/Valla, then.
Her problem isn't necessarily that she doesn't do enough damage, it's that she doesn't do enough damage that matters. Because her primary damage source is her poison, and because it's a DoT, it's... mostly neglible. Regen and healing effects negate a lot of it. It doesn't do anything to secure or enable kills, really. Her single target damage is actually kinda decent, but it's much too reliant on her 7/16 W talents (and Leaping Strike, which means you're not getting Thornwood). Either way, her damage might look nice on the scoreboard, but in reality it's just meter padding. It's like when Stitches used to do a ton of Hero damage via his Trait.
The reality of the situation is that she needs more damage, in some form or another. If you're gonna have a DoT character, that DoT better damn well hit hard. I also really like the suggestion of removing Wisp as an ability and giving her a new E. That would help too! She just needs something. I doubt we'll see much this upcoming patch, aside from maybe buffing her health. Maybe.
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Yep.
http://cloud9.gg/news/fan-arthelon
And Fan's own post on the matter: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1so38tk
Rumor has it Fan is going to join Bob Ross Fan Club, given that there's a vacant spot since Arthelon left them for C9.
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But why is C9 changing their roster when the 5 people they had literally are the best in the world. They are the world champions. They beat everybody else. Those 5 people, that combination of skill, communication, talent combined allowed them to completely dominate the world stage at Blizzcon.
Why change that?
I mean, Arthelon is a super talented dude. But C9 didn't need a roster change. They had a winning roster.
"Hi Nova. Hi Nova. Hi Nova. Hi Nova. Have some Polymorph. Also, my friends are here."
Similarly, Illidan using the Hunt on you as BW because he thinks you're easy pickings, and then immediately slapping him with Polymorph when he arrives, while your buddy just smacks him in the face.
Maybe some sort of front-loading mechanic on her DoTs would work, too, even if they don't change the overall damage. Like, every time you apply/reapply the DoT the next tick does more damage or something.
I mean, it's probably exactly that. There's probably some behind-the-scenes stuff. C9 recently went to that tournament in China, and they apparently didn't perform too well. They got 4th place, but they got knocked down to loser's bracket pretty early.
But, from what I could gather, there was apparently some differences of opinions between Fan and the rest of the roster, I guess. Enough for Fan to want to leave, I guess.
It's not that uncommon, I mean. It's the same reason they dropped Biceps originally for Fan, despite being incredibly strong at the time. If there's an opportunity to make your roster even stronger, of course you will.
I mean Tempo Storm had a similar issue, sorta. Much more extreme than C9's case, but still. There was a lot of internal strife and conflicts on the team, but due to Blizzcon rules they had to keep the roster locked. The team manager even went so far to say that they would've changed the roster months ago if they could've.
I dunno. Esports, man. Esports.
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Arthelon, however, always performed well and never seemed like there was an issue from the front end. Obviously something behind the scenes made them want that change.
All the best to him on C9. And all the best to Fan too. I was a Fan fan.
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Yeah, I've seen several Tower of Doom games where one team lurches ahead but the other team eventually wins because their comp is better once ults come into play.
Also apologies to @Alucard6986 for being a dick earlier, it's been a long day and I was just tired of the bickering and negativity.
Hey look at that, rumor no more: https://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/3yz1vv/bob_ross_fan_club_picks_up_fan_as_new_fifth_player/
Looks like BRFC was a huge fan of Fan. Bob Ross FAN Club. :bzz:
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KT can gravity lapse 3 people on a 13s cooldown (targeted in a line obv) while Johanna's ULT can stun 3 people on a 60s cooldown (auto target)
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I dunno, man. I kinda think the level 13 Artanis that hadn't picked a talent since level 4 was better/worse.
Or the amazing (read: terrible) ETC who took Stage Dive and would use it point blank and miss.
Those were some games, man. Jeez.
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I'm sorry I wasn't there to pick Stage Dive and use it appropriately.
What's funny is that after C9 won their last big C9 vs TS face off(NA World Championship?), C9 joked in a post-game interview that their entire strategy was to put Zuna on tilt as much as possible because his only operating level is "tilt".
True or not, he was throwing enough to the point where Reddit was joking about him being the sixth member of Cloud9's HotS team.
But despite that I decided to ring in the new year with a match so I queued as Abathur and we got Infernal Shrines. Other team had TLV and Murky, so I knew I was going to have to prove my specialist worth but the pressure was off a little in the team fights. Our Kael'Thas starts the match saying its his first match as KT, so go easy on him. OK, sure thing. So he's laning top when the first shrine spawns bot and he just keeps on laning so I told him to get to the shrine. Eventually he stops laning. And goes to the top shrine. And sits there. So our team kept telling him wrong shrine and eventually he went to the correct one, but of course it was too late and the other team got the punisher.
But things improved from there and we got all the other punishers and rode it to a very tidy victory.
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I logged in before bed to clear the quest queue a bit. :P
Played a few games with Anteues or however the hell that's spelled. We dominated our games, especially the training one he accidentally queued us up for.
But man, that first game we logged in and it's Diablo (me), Kerrigan (him), Nova, Murky, Naz.
And we are facing Johanna, Kael, Thrall, Raynor and another powerful assassin I can't remember right now.
And we're all like "Oh shit, this gonna be bad".
And then we just fucking stomped them. Just nothing but dive and pick and tearing them apart. Our teammates were pretty darn good for the most part too. Nova was scouting ahead to get us vision for the picks and then she'd land the big hits to help us delete people, Murky and Naz were on point with the Octos and Zombie Walls and Kerrigan was just cleaning house. Was good times.
Then we did it again the next game.
i'm sorry hero league team i can't carry you ANY FUCKING HARDER
Jeez louise.
also our thrall and kharazim (who were grouped) were cursing out our hammer, in english and spanish
yay hero league
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It's spelled U-R-M-O-M.
Also, it was nice to finally break the streak of terrible games with two games where people didn't run around like headless chickens. Dibby and Supagoat and others can tell you all about the string of shit games we played yesterday.
I'm thinking pingpingpingpingpingping
Like, if you're doing a QM queue as a group, and you got to put in search criteria for the other slots. Like, you want one slot to be a warrior, and the other to be a support. Or you could just put in Random to cut queue times and take whoever shows up first.
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Just added you.
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